MENSTRUATION MATTERS

The Occupy movement is about equality. Its primary aim is to create a more just world economically, but socially, too, for economic justice and social justice are inextricably linked. The specific focus of each local group may be somewhat different, but Occupiers share a distrust of corporations and financial institutions and concern for erosion of democracy. Globally, this movement...

Photo by Andrea Mason. Used with permission His mother told me she was in the shower and when she came out, there he was. “He kept pushing them through the applicator and saying, ‘A flower!’ and then trying to sniff them,” she explained (and the t-shirt, by the way, is just a wonderful coincidence). So why is this such a...

A team of Australian filmmakers are working on a promising-looking comedy film, Bloomers, described as “Todd Solondz meets Freaks and Geeks meets menstrual blood”. Visit their Pozible site if you’d like to support the project. Some simple tips for enjoying sex during pregnancy. The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) now recommends that birth control pills should...

You don’t know what my cramps are like…So RELIEVED I am not pregnant…Tampon commercials: it is not. like. that. It’s something that’s happening TO me; it’s not part of me. It struck me when she said that. It happens to you. It’s not part of you. What do you think about that? Is that how it’s like for...

Have you ever been concerned because your period was late? I know I have. But I’m not anymore! And you don’t have to be either! And since I’m sure you’d rather not spend several days every month nervously pacing and counting dates backwards on your hands while glaring at the general vicinity where you guess your uterus is, I’ll tell...

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We are researchers in the social sciences, the natural sciences and the humanities, health care providers, policy makers, health activists, artists and students from a wide range of fields with interests in the role of menstrual and ovulatory health across the life span.